I don't buy that. A magazine-style website chooses to invite specific guest writers, and should know what their views are before inviting them, so even though that kind of disclaimer may protect them from legal retaliation, it doesn't give them any kind of shield against reader criticism. The only time I'd accept it as a valid disclaimer is when they explicitly say something like "this is a contoversial post, we know you may not agree, but we think you should be aware of the viewpoint".
You're free not to buy it.
Be it as it may, there was a Polygon article on the very same issue and though by no means laudatory it was vastly different from this opinion piece. Draw your conclusions. What's said in this piece is open for contention regardless of whether it's Polygon-endorsed or not. Furthermore, Polygon can show its openness to contrarian points of view by inviting Thunderf00t to post an opinion piece there as well.
If anyone feels so strongly about Polygon's alleged editorial guidelines he or she should stop visiting there. It's the most effective message one can send. But I wish Polygon would take cues from, say,
www.democracynow.org. There's no doubt this news show has an agenda, that it takes sides, that it seeks to promote a certain world view. There's no doubt in anyone's mind where DemocracyNow stands on the middle East issue, for example. Still, they regularly host debates between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli leading voices.
Got that Polygon?
Since when is female sexiness an inherently bad thing anyway? (...).
Absolutely.
There seems to be a suggestion that wanting someone for his or her looks alone is somehow wrong, reproachable. That it's not enough. That finding someone physically attractive and proceeding accordingly
must - and not even down the line, but immediately - be superseded by an appreciation of his or her so-called inner qualities, those that supposedly transcend shallow and superficial considerations like beauty.
But, under the guise of deep, mature thought, this is just a puerile agenda that seeks to impose ideals borrowed from low grade romantic comedies onto reality.